lo-cotidiano:

Today in posts that annoy me: this tweet about the how no one says fuck the fire department. 

And it’s because like… okay at least in NYC, the fire department is just as systemically horrible as the police are, but they’re more low about it so they get away with a lot. But shit like racism is rampant in the FDNY – it’s just not as obvious because they don’t (actively) kill people the way the NYPD does. Like, I know elders who have talked about how the fire department used to refuse to come to some blocks to put out fires (the Bronx is burning, anyone?). 

And that shit hasn’t stopped today – in fact, the Vulcan Society (the Black firefighters group) won a lawsuit a few years ago because of discriminatory hiring practices and antiblack/racist shit happening within the department. Things like, people having Confederate flags up in houses, wearing KKK hoods, etc.  Mind you, it’s not just firefighters either, but EMTs. 

I don’t think it was officially reported, but someone very close to me works for the fire department and just a few weeks ago, a Black EMT found a noose in his ambulance. And ofc the people who did it said it was “a joke” and “not racially motivated” and I think got off with just a paid suspension. 

But yeah. 

These white supremacists are all over city/state departments, just because the violence isn’t as explicit doesn’t mean it’s not there.